Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 18 November 2025–20 February 2026

Alicja Wysocka is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, and installation. Her practice choreographs collective experiences that reimagine alternative ways of being together—economically, socially, and emotionally. Drawing from histories of labor, care, and resistance, her projects blend archival research, therapeutic methodologies, and performative storytelling. Born in Poland, she lives nomadically and works globally, anchoring her projects in embodied, site-specific processes. Wysocka’s work often unfolds as long-term collaborations with local communities, activating shared gestures, voices, and memories to explore the tensions between collective agency and structural constraint. Through these multi-sensory environments, she investigates how intimacy, solidarity, and repair can become political practices.

Alicja Wysocka

During her IASPIS residency, Wysocka will continue developing Last Commune, a transdisciplinary project exploring the afterlives of communal ideals and collective forms of cohabitation in post-industrial and post-socialist contexts. Building on fieldwork in East Europe and Southeast Asia, she will research historical sites of collective living and new cooperative experiments in the Nordic region. The residency will serve as a platform for workshops and performative gatherings that question how shared resources, care infrastructures, and ecological interdependence can be reimagined today.

Wysocka studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Selected exhibitions include Triennale Milano (2025); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (2025); Kunstverein Wiesen (2023); Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2021); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2021); Venice Biennale of Architecture (2021); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2020); and Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2017). She has undertaken residencies at Jan van Eyck Academie, Netherlands (2022–2023); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2023); PARADISE AIR, Tokyo (2023); Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2020); and Jatiwangi art Factory, Indonesia (2019).